US 12,291,782 B2
Component having improved surface contact resistance and reaction activity and methods of making the same
Conghua Wang, West Windsor, NJ (US)
Assigned to TREADSTONE TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Princeton, NJ (US)
Filed by Treadstone Technologies, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/524,424.
Application 18/524,424 is a continuation of application No. 17/183,502, filed on Feb. 24, 2021, granted, now 11,885,026.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/981,879, filed on Feb. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0093377 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. C23C 24/08 (2006.01); C25B 11/036 (2021.01); H01M 8/0228 (2016.01)
CPC C23C 24/085 (2013.01) [C25B 11/036 (2021.01); H01M 8/0228 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A component for an electrochemical device, the component comprising:
a substrate comprising a porous carbon material; and
a mixture of
a plurality of particles comprising carbon, and
a plurality of particles comprising metal bonded to a surface of the substrate,
wherein the particles comprising carbon are bonded to the surface of the substrate by the particles comprising metal through a metallurgical bond comprising a carbide.